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Bel-Ami: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 10 2025
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One handsome face. One ruthless ambition. One corrupt city where everything-and everyone-is for sale.
Georges Duroy arrives in Paris with nothing but his military bearing, his good looks, and an insatiable hunger for success. Within months, he discovers that in the glittering world of Belle Époque journalism, the fastest path to power runs through the bedrooms of influential women.
From his first awkward newspaper article to the pinnacle of Parisian society, Duroy's ascent is swift, calculated, and utterly shameless. He seduces wives, manipulates mistresses, and exploits every connection-all while the city's most powerful men remain oblivious to the charming predator in their midst.
Published in 1885, Bel-Ami shocked readers with its unflinching portrait of a world where morality bends to ambition, where the press shapes politics, and where a man's success depends less on talent than on knowing which woman to seduce next. Maupassant's cold-eyed masterpiece remains one of literature's most devastating dissections of power, corruption, and the mechanics of social climbing.
This edition presents the novel in clear, modern English that preserves Maupassant's elegant prose and razor-sharp observations-allowing contemporary readers to experience the full force of this timeless critique of ambition unbound.
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